There are currently 446 pieces in my collection. Maybe even in the time it takes you to read this page. HP equipment makes up the largest subset by far (> 150 pieces). Other major vendors include Tektronix, Fluke and Wavetek. Each major manufacturer had their own ways of doing things which often times were strikingly unique. Virtually all of the pieces were bought on eBay.īut for my money (which it is), I am an HP connoisseur and simply can't bear to let one of their pieces perish if the price is right. My constraint is usually to pay no more than 2% of the latest catalog MSRP. Sticking to this constraint means that the items are usually broken. But that's the whole point, isn't it? The pieces that were not bought were usually given to me by friends and relatives. A couple of pieces were literally picked out of the garbage can. ![]() Those pieces that were received in some state of disrepair (something more than simple dirty switches/pots or misalignments) and were repaired by me have some brief repair notes in blue below their descriptions. As I collected more equipment, the repair descriptions became more and more verbose and described much of the repair journey. At the bottom of this page are some general comments on repair. While the descriptions and repair notes are accurate, each reflects my state of mind and state of equipment at the time I wrote it. So often times I make comments, such as "the best scope I own," which may no longer be true. I haven't gone back and reworked various descriptions. I've said nothing about operation and service manuals. Not mandatory, and I've certainly fixed a lot of stuff without them mainly by visual inspection.įor the most part, these are necessary in order to repair things. To paraphrase Yogi Berra, "You can see a lot by looking." But finding manuals is almost as much fun as finding the equipment.
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